The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
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The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
By (Author) Luis Sepulveda
Illustrated by Chris Sheban
Translated by Prof Margaret Sayers Peden
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Scholastic Canada Ltd
1st August 2006
Canada
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Birds
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Cats including big cats
FIC
Physical Properties
Paperback
126
Width 153mm, Height 188mm, Spine 8mm
159g
Description
A cat. A seagull. An impossible task.
A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback!
Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. She extracts three extraordinary promises from him: that he will watch over the egg, that he will not EAT the egg, and that, when it's time, he will teach the baby gull to fly. The first two promises are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it
